[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] egl: android: add dma-buf fd support

[Rob Clark]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
>> It would ofc be good to make sure we don't break things for
>> android-x86, but I think they would stick on dri2 + pre-atomic state
>> w/ compile time build decisions until enough of the desktop gpu's
>> support atomic.. although maybe it helps to switch them over to
>> prime+render without switching to gbm_gralloc and kms hwc stuff yet?
>
> I'm not sure that will work without a lot of work to drm_gralloc to
> support using both the render and card nodes and prime support for
> each gpu.
>
> gbm_gralloc and non-atomic kms in hwc seems like the quickest path to
> me, but I may be missing something.


hmm, yeah, I guess if it was straightforward to add pageflip support
in kms hwc, that sounds like a good option, since all the drivers that
android-x86 cares about should support prime+render

BR,
-R